SICSS-Rutgers

June 14 to June 25, 2021 | Rutgers University | Virtual event

Schedule & Materials

All times are in Eastern Daylight Time. - The schedule will run between approximately 9:00AM-5:30PM.

Specific schedule details subject to change.

Monday June 14, 2021 - Introduction and Ethics

10:00 - 11:00 Introduction and logistics
11:00 - 12:30 Small group discussions
12:30 - 1:30 Small group lunches (optional)
1:30 - 3:15 Small Group Exercise on Ethics. Intro Slides; Activity; Case Study
3:30 - 5:00 Talk from Vivek Singh

Tuesday June 15, 2021 - Collecting Digital Trace Data

10:00 - 10:15 Logistics Slides
10:15 - 11:45 Tutorials on Screen Scraping and APIs Tutorial files; Activity
11:45 - 12:30 Lunch break
12:30 - 1:30 Tutorial Twitter API Tutorial Files
1:45 - 2:30 Small Group Exercise: Design Research Question
2:45 - 5:00 Small Group Exercise: Collect and Describe Digital Trace Data

Wednesday June 16, 2021 - Automated Text Analysis

10:00 - 10:15 Logistics and introduction to group exercise
10:15 - 12:00 Group Exercise, Session I Activity Prompt
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Group Exercise, Session II
2:00 - 3:15 Group Presentations and Discussion
3:30 - Talk by Chris Fariss

Thursday June 17, 2021 - Machine Learning for Prediction and Classification

10:00 - 10:15 Logistics Slides
10:15 - 12:00 Live Tutorials on Machine Learning Materials
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 - 3:15 Afternoon Group exercise Activity
3:30 - Talk by In Song Kim

Friday June 18, 2021 - (Morning) Surveys and Experiments

10:00 - 10:30 Logistics and introduction Slides
10:30 - 11:45 Experiment Group Exercise Activity
11:45 - 12:30 Break
12:30 - 2:00 Talk by Dan Nielson

Friday June 18, 2021 - (Afternoon) Network Analysis

2:15- 5:00 Live Network Analysis Tutorial Tutorial slides; Tutorial code

Saturday June 19, 2021 - Day off

Sunday June 20, 2021 - Day off

Monday June 21, 2021 - (Morning) Network Analysis Continued

10:00 - 10:15 Logistics Slides
10:15 - 12:00 Network Group Exercise Activity; Code; Data
12:00 - 1:00 Small group lunches (optional)
1:00 - 2:00 Talk by Matthew Weber

Monday June 21, 2021 - (Afternoon) Form Research Groups

2:15 - 3:15 Research Speed Networking Slides
3:15 - (when your group stops) Form and Meet with Research Teams

Tuesday June 22, 2021 - Work on group projects

All day: Work on Group Projects
(Optional Festival Talk) 11:00 - 12:00 Using images and video data for social science: Challenges and opportunities
12:30 - 2:00 Talk by Zhanna Terechshenko
By 3:00: Slack your group’s project plan

Wednesday June 23, 2021 - Work on group projects

All day: Work on Group Projects
(Optional Talk from Twitter) 11:00 - 12:00 Dr. Maria Rodriguez on exploratory data analysis in R with the TwitterAPI
12:30 - 2:00 Talk by Munmun De Choudhury
By 5:30: Slack a brief project update

Thursday June 24, 2021 - Work on group projects

All day: Work on Group Projects
(Optional Festival Advanced Tutorial) 11:00 - 12:30 Tutorial on deep learning for causal inference
12:30 - 2:00 Talk by Hana Shepherd
By 3:00: Slack a brief project update

Friday June 25, 2021 - Present group projects

(Optional) 9:00 - 10:15am Main Session will be open for any final group preparations and/or questions.
10:15 - 10:25 Welcome
10:25 - 10:40 Group Presentation: Social Butterflies
10:40 - 10:55 Group Presentation: Knights Fighting Bots
10:55 - 11:10 Group Presentation: Si-NO to Foreign Propaganda
11:10 - 11:25 Group Presentation: All about Text
11:25 - 11:40 Group Presentation: Mining for Equity
11:40 - 11:55 Group Presentation: The Storm
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Break and Optional Small Group Networking
1:40 - 1:55 Group Presentation: The TikTok Group
1:55 - 2:10 Group Presentation: Crabbie Cakes
2:10 - 2:25 Group Presentation: Pretty Fly for Some Syllabi
2:25 - 2:40 Group Presentation: No Stereotype Left Behind
2:40 - 3:00 Closing

Host a Location

You can host a partner location of the Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at your university, company, NGO, or government agency.